An inbox has no owner, no status, and no record

Employee requests arrive as email: change my address, how do I enroll a dependent, I need to take leave, something happened I have to report. They sit in a shared inbox, and whether one gets handled depends on whoever opens it. Two people answer the same request, or no one does. The one that needs a careful record is handled in a thread that later gets deleted.

No one can see the queue. How many requests are open, which have waited too long, and who is on each: an inbox tracks none of it.

Each request becomes a case, routed and answered from policy

We build each incoming request as a tracked case with an owner, a status, and a category, sitting on the same agent and record engine behind the rest of people operations. The routine questions the agent answers from your policy material, with the passage it used, so a case that only needed the handbook closes without a person. The rest route to whoever handles that category.

A case that touches an employee record, a leave request read against a balance, an update to a personnel file, reads and writes against the controlled record, so handling the request and recording it are one step instead of two.

The queue is visible and every case leaves a trail

The team sees the whole queue: what is open, what each case is, who owns it, and how long it has waited. Work moves by priority instead of by whoever happened to open the inbox.

A request that needs a careful record, a complaint or an accommodation, carries its own trail of who handled it and when, tied to a person and a time. Requests stop living in an inbox and start living as cases the team can see, route, and close, with the routine ones answered from policy before they reach a person.

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Get the requests out of the shared inbox

Tell us what lands in your people-ops inbox and how it gets handled today, and we scope it. Or email hello@mcintoshsystems.com.